• Cairo was the codename for a project at Microsoft from 1991 to 1996. Its charter was to build technologies for a next-generation operating system that...
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  • company in 1997. Microsoft launched the Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center in September 2007. It is located in the Smart Village near Cairo. Its mission is...
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    Cairo (/ˈkaɪroʊ/ KY-roh; Arabic: القاهرة, romanized: al-Qāhirah, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [el.qɑ(ː)ˈheɾɑ] ) is the capital of Egypt and the city-state...
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    Microsoft Windows versions List of Microsoft codenames Originally codenamed Winball Has also been called ChiCairo and London. Windows Vista and Windows...
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  • Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and sub-families...
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  • Microsoft Windows was announced by Bill Gates on 10 November 1983, 2 years before it was first released. Microsoft introduced Windows as a graphical user...
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    was seen as competing with Microsoft Cairo and NeXTSTEP, even though Taligent did not ship a product until 1995 and Cairo never shipped at all. From 1994...
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  • development. At this point, Microsoft's strategy was to have a next generation, high-end OS based on Windows NT, namely, Cairo, and a low-end, consumer-focused...
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  • Look up Cairo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cairo is the capital city of Egypt. Cairo may also refer to: Cairo, Georgia, a city Cairo, Illinois...
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  • planning of Windows 95 in 1992, Microsoft's strategy was to have a next generation, high-end OS based on Windows NT, namely, Cairo, and a low-end, consumer-focused...
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    graphics APIs OpenVG, Qt, Skia, and Microsoft's Direct2D. The BeOS, OS/2 and DirectFB backends were dropped in 2022. The Cairo drawing model relies on a three-layer...
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  • AIM alliance, with the purpose of building a competing platform to Microsoft Cairo and NeXTSTEP. The development process never worked, and has been cited...
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  • for Microsoft's web server software, Internet Information Services.[citation needed] Its origins, however, date further back to Microsoft's Cairo operating...
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    Old Cairo (Arabic: مصر القديمة, romanized: Miṣr al-Qadīma, Egyptian pronunciation: Maṣr El-ʾAdīma) is a historic area in Cairo, Egypt, which includes the...
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  • Windows Vista). Microsoft officially demonstrated Cairo in the 1993 Professional Developers Conference, complete with a demo system running Cairo for all attendees...
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  • Internally, some Microsoft employees were describing the Longhorn project as "another Cairo" or "Cairo.NET", referring to the Cairo development project...
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  • Microsoft codenames are given by Microsoft to products it has in development before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves...
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  • the concept of an object-based backend file system in Microsoft Data Centers (Microsoft "Cairo"/NT), a low-bandwidth-streaming rendering client with page-based...
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  • History of the graphical user interface Microsoft Bob Removal of Internet Explorer "Cairo Shell Homepage". Cairo Development Team. 30 May 2020. Retrieved...
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  • Jon (June 1996). "The Road to Cairo Goes Through Nashville". Windows IT Pro. Other Schnoll, Scott. "The History of Microsoft Internet Explorer Archived 2011-07-22...
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    to be a competitor in the operating system and object markets, and Microsoft's Cairo was at least a consideration, even without any product releases from...
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    all technologies of Cairo shipped. The WEB browser was not one of them, though it influenced the design of many other common Microsoft technologies. BYTE...
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    the demise of the Microsoft/IBM joint development agreement, he was an architect, development manager and key contributor to Cairo, working for Jim Allchin...
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  • called the tray that had been borrowed from Microsoft's Cairo project. With the release of Windows XP, Microsoft changed the behavior of the taskbar to take...
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  • Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of computer software operating systems created by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating...
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  • Perfect Dark (upcoming video game) (category Microsoft games)
    set against the backdrop of a restored Cairo. Perfect Dark marks the first project by The Initiative, a Microsoft studio founded in 2018 and led by Darrell...
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  • WinFS (redirect from Microsoft Rave)
    databases, developed by Microsoft and first demonstrated in 2003. It was intended as an advanced storage subsystem for the Microsoft Windows operating system...
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    Tarek Shawki (category Cairo University alumni)
    Tarek Galal Shawki (Arabic: طارق جلال شوقى) (born June 12, 1957, in Cairo, Egypt) is the former minister of education in Egypt. He was the Dean of the...
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    don't tell: Alberto Cairo, Power BI & the rise of data journalism". Microsoft Story Labs. Retrieved 2020-01-09. "Profile of Alberto Cairo on his personal...
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    over 8,000 Cairo public demonstration, including the Object File System March 1996 - Moscone Center in San Francisco, California Microsoft demonstrated...
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